Re: Dot files
Re: Dot files
- Subject: Re: Dot files
- From: Rick Gordon <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 12:13:12 -0700
You're right. I DID mean SimpleText.
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On 6/19/06 at 12:00 PM -0700, Paul Berkowitz wrote in a message entitled
"Re: Dot files":
>You must have meant a different example for a text editor. TextEdit exists
>only in OS X (and its formatted text files are .rtf, which will transfer
>fine to Windows without resource or meta info). Perhaps you meant formatted
>TEXT files, which SimpleText could display back in OS 7-9? You couldn't add
>color in SimpleText itself, mind you, although you could display it. I think
>maybe you could do Bold, Underline, Italics? I've forgotten. But certainly
>with a better styled text editor, such as Tex-Edit Plus - which may be what
>you were thinking of - you could have color, bold and other formatting in
>Mac "TEXT" files. If those were brought over to Windows as .txt files, you'd
>lose all the formatting, I'm sure.
>
>--
>Paul Berkowitz
>
>
>> From: Rick Gordon <email@hidden>
>> Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 11:43:22 -0700
>> To: AppleScript Users <email@hidden>
>> Subject: Re: Dot files
>>
>> While Apple has (mostly successfully) attempted to deprecate the usage of
>> resources in files since OS X, many Classic programs use resources in ways
>> that are critical to the functionality of the document. Styled TextEdit files
>> are an easy example of this. The formatting and coloring is held as resource
>> fork information. So is custom frame data in QuarkXPress 4 files.
>>
>> Try creating a formatted file in TextEdit in OS 9 or earlier, and put it
>> through the Windows-format transfer process.
>>
> > Rick Gordon
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